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== European eyes on Libyan article ==
== Re re-approval of [[Boiling point/Draft]] ==


Your assessment of the constantly changing article, [[Operation ODYSSEY DAWN]], would be very welcome. Yes, several people have commented that they thought Odyssey Dawn was a stripper in the seventies.
David, will you please review Milton's responses to your comments on th Talk page regarding [[Boiling point/Draft]], and note on the Talk page whether you consider them satisfactory, and if not, why not.  


One area where you might have insight is on [[Samantha Power]], the presidential special adviser on human rights, who is reported to have been one of the key drivers for the intervention.  She's a naturalized US citizen from Ireland, but I believe she was involved in human rights there. I set up a lemma, but she probably warrants a full article. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 19:45, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Also, would you give your assessment of the article as to its meriting re-approval.


:I had already come across that article but with events moving so fast I decided to leave it alone for now, but I will certainly take a look through it again. The Sam Power article sounds like something I could work on. She is an interesting, if at times controversial, figure. Cheers for the suggestion. [[User:David Finn|David Finn]] 08:37, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. —[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 03:08, 29 February 2012 (UTC), Approval Manager.


::That could be a very useful approach. In the main article, I note that I make considerable inference based on my knowledge of weapons and systems, inferences that often are confirmed by later reports (e.g., the bombs that the B-2 almost had to be using).
:I see the approval process overtook my timeframe for answering these questions. Well done Anthony, in just a few weeks you managed our first article approval in a very long time! Ok, only a re-approval, but it's a good start. For the record I think the small addition to the introduction of the draft article made a big difference to the amount of people who would try to use that article. My concerns were the same as yours - of course we shouldn't eliminate the scientific information, that would be ridiculous, but we should certainly try where possible to introduce all readers to a topic in a way they can understand, with increasing complexity as the reader progresses. That is, of course, why we have subpages and the like. Keep up the good work! [[User:David Finn|David Finn]] 07:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 
::If you have any thoughts on PD images of European leaders, I would welcome them (e.g., Juppe, Sarkozy, Ashton). [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 09:10, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 
:::I'll have a think about the PD images. Would you mind taking a look at the Ohio-class article, at the new Catalogs page? I intend to add all 18 ships to that list so if you have any stylistic comments I would like to hear them - it is going to be a fair bit of work and I'd rather get it right first time! [[User:David Finn|David Finn]] 09:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 
== Yacht ==
 
To support your more specific articles, I started a stubby article on yachts. Thinking about it, there are two distinct meanings, one the racing vessel and the other a luxury vessel -- for that matter, there were a few WWII conversions to patrol yachts, which even had the US Navy designation of PY.
 
I know there are classes and types of racing yachts.  As far as luxury yachts, I have the impression there are are different definitions. When I asked my commercial fisherman housemate, he said there was no specific size, and he knew of 24' luxury sailboats. It's my recollection, however, that the US Power Squadron does have a minimum length.  Somewhere, I may have heard that one has at least one professional crewman. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 15:44, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 09:45, 15 April 2012

Re re-approval of Boiling point/Draft

David, will you please review Milton's responses to your comments on th Talk page regarding Boiling point/Draft, and note on the Talk page whether you consider them satisfactory, and if not, why not.

Also, would you give your assessment of the article as to its meriting re-approval.

Thank you. —Anthony.Sebastian 03:08, 29 February 2012 (UTC), Approval Manager.

I see the approval process overtook my timeframe for answering these questions. Well done Anthony, in just a few weeks you managed our first article approval in a very long time! Ok, only a re-approval, but it's a good start. For the record I think the small addition to the introduction of the draft article made a big difference to the amount of people who would try to use that article. My concerns were the same as yours - of course we shouldn't eliminate the scientific information, that would be ridiculous, but we should certainly try where possible to introduce all readers to a topic in a way they can understand, with increasing complexity as the reader progresses. That is, of course, why we have subpages and the like. Keep up the good work! David Finn 07:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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